Showing posts with label knowledge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label knowledge. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Post #982

Knowledge is not a loose-leaf notebook of facts. Above all, it is a responsibility for the integrity of what we are, primarily of what we are as ethical creatures.
—J. Bronkowski

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Post #966

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
—Francis Bacon

Monday, April 16, 2012

Post #923

Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, 
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.
—Lord Byron

Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Post #855

Knowledge is the antidote to fear.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Post #804

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less than looking.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Friday, December 02, 2011

Post #788

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
—Samuel Johnson

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Post #773

Men are four:
He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool - shun him;
He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple - teach him;
He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep - wake him;
He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise - follow him.
—Lady Burton

Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Post #730

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
—Samuel Johnson

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Post #686

Grace is given of God, but knowledge is bought on the market.
—Arthur Hugh Clough

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Post #677

Much learning does not teach understanding.
—Heraclitus

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Post #605

I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourselves.
—Harriet Beecher Stowe

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Post #415

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
—Wernher von Braun

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Post #349

When you're through learning, you're through.
—Vernon Law

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Post #302

We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those whose have differed.
—Charles Caleb Colton

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Post #293

I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
—Clarence Darrow

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Post #76

Knowledge is of two kinds.  We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
—Samuel Johnson

The Penalty of Leadership

In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus

A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied...

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